Given high prices and rapidly increasing demand with a tendency for decreasing catches from the sea, this study attempts to provide an evaluation for production performance of shrimp farming and to provide information ...

Defensive medicine is defined as an alteration of medical practice by physicians to reduce the possibility of malpractice litigation. The purpose of this study is to investigate the extent to which doctors in emergency ...

This study provides a method for explaining the effects of the current Department of Defense (DoD) housing program on military family housing choice behavior. In addition, this study provides a method for evaluating the ...

This dissertation consists of three essays. The overall theme is about the economic effects of technology transfer and spillovers in developing countries through foreign direct investment (FDI). The first essay is an ...

The objectives of the study are to include endogenous supply and uncertainty in a fisheries market analysis and to provide an economic explanation for the allocation of total catch between two markets, a fresh fish market ...

LULU (Locally Unwanted Land Use) and NIMBY (Never In My Back Yard) are often cited as two major hurdles to overcome for successful siting of a noxious facility. Among various types of waste in Korea, food waste has been ...

As an extension of previous studies on the economics of fertility, this dissertation estimates the demand for abortions by married women with unplanned pregnancies who conceived during the 1970-72 period after elective ...

The objectives of this study are to analyze the effects of various government policies and external shocks on the movement of equilibrium real exchange rates under conditions of financial repression. Two main topics are ...

This dissertation analyzes the phenomenon of tour packaging from an economic viewpoint. There are many instances in the market-place of goods being sold as packages. Tourism products are just one example. The literature ...

The objective of this study is to investigate the relationship between labor force age (or experience) composition and the experience-earnings profiles in Korea in order to understand the dynamics of these earnings profiles. ...

This dissertation investigates corporate financial structure, ownership structure, and their relationships with economic development. It is composed of three chapters. The first chapter investigates the Modigliani-Miller ...

The main objective of this study is to investigate the policy goal of the government of Korea in the implementation of the medical insurance system. The policy goal of the medical insurance system is to improve the ...

The participation constraint in a principal-agent problem requires that an agent receive at least the reservation utility. A binding participation constraint means that the agent receives exactly the reservation utility ...

The experience of land allocations in transition economies indicates a need to design a redistribution mechanism to reallocate farmland efficiently. As a first step towards designing a land redistribution mechanism, we ...

This dissertation is a case study analysis of the relationship between trade policy and renewable resource utilization in the fisheries industry of Thailand. The main research objective is a determination whether protection ...